个人简历

2014 - 2019，博士后(Helen Hay Whitney Fellow)，洛克菲勒大学 (Rockefeller University)/ 霍华德·休斯医学研究所(HHMI)，Dr. Jeffrey M. Friedman 实验室。
2008 – 2014，博士，生物医学/免疫学，德州大学西南医学中心 (UT Southwestern), Dr. Lora V. Hooper 实验室。
2005 – 2008， 硕士，分子细胞及发育生物学，艾奥瓦州立大学 (Iowa State University)，Dr. Yanhai Yin 实验室。
2001 – 2005， 学士，生物学，复旦大学

研究领域

外界环境因素（如昼夜交替、肠道微生物）对小鼠T淋巴细胞发育和功能的影响。
小鼠T淋巴细胞对机体代谢与神经活动的影响。
肿瘤微环境对T淋巴细胞的抑制机制及增强T淋巴细胞抗肿瘤活性的基因工程改造

近期论文

1.Wang, Y., Kuang, Z., Yu, X., Ruhn, K. A., Kubo, M., and Hooper, L. V. (2017) The intestinal microbiota regulates body composition through NFIL3 and the circadian clock. Science 357, 912-916. [PMID: 28860383]
2.Yu, X., Wang, Y., Deng, M., Li, Y., Ruhn, K. A., Zhang, C. C., and Hooper, L. V. (2014) The basic leucine zipper transcription factor NFIL3 directs the development of a common innate lymphoid cell precursor. eLife 3, e04406. （共同一作，共同通讯作者）[PMID: 25310240]
3.Yu, X., Rollins, D., Ruhn, K.A., Stubblefield, J.J., Green, C.B., Kashiwada, M., Rothman, P.B., Takahashi, J.S., and Hooper, L.V. (2013). TH17 Cell Differentiation Is Regulated by the Circadian Clock. Science 342, 727-730. [PMID: 24202171]
4.Yu, X., Li, L., Zola, J., Aluru, M., Ye, H., Foudree, A., Guo, H., Anderson, S., Aluru, S., Liu, P., Rodermel, S., and Yin Y. (2011). A brassinosteroid transcriptional network revealed by genome-wide identification of BES1 target genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal 65, 634-646. （共同一作）[PMID: 21214652]
5. Yu, X., Li, L., Guo, M., Chory, J., and Yin, Y. (2008). Modulation of brassinosteroid-regulated gene expression by Jumonji domain-containing proteins ELF6 and REF6 in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105, 7618-7623. [PMID: 18467490]